Exeter take on the fivetime European champions for the first time on French soil with an unchanged XV knowing that victory would put them two wins away from repeating their 2020 triumph.
The Chiefs showed great resilience to win away in France in their first game of this season’s campaign, coming from behind to beat Toulon thanks to Henry Slade’s dramatic match-winning conversion and also had to dig deep to see off Bath in the last 16.
Players like rising England and Italy stars Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Ross Vintcent have really stood up to be counted and Yeandle is backing them to deliver again.
“You’ve got young lads in there who are now international superstars. Just because they are young doesn’t mean that they are not experienced,” the 34-year-old said.
“We have had this so called new team in for a season now and I think in most big occasions they have stepped up. So I’d like to think they have got enough experience to go out there and thrive.
“The big focus is going to be staying on our game plan and what we want to enforce on them. Just because it is a big game in a big stadium against a big team, it doesn’t mean you need to change how you go about things.
“I think you saw that in the manner of how we played last week (against Bath). It was a big game, particularly after the previous week when we had a really poor performance away at Sale, but it didn’t mean we went and changed the way we played or how we went about things, I think it was just a lot of simple things done really, really well and an intensity that ultimately got us over the line in the end.
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